A platform for lightweight deployment of IoT applications based on a Function-as-a-Service model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a lightweight IoT application deployment platform based on a Function-as-a-Service model, enabling easier, faster deployment with lower resource consumption compared to Docker container-based methods.

Contribution

It presents a novel platform that simplifies IoT application deployment using FaaS, with integrated interoperability and a web-based management tool.

Findings

Faster deployment times compared to Docker containers

Lower resource usage on IoT devices

Enhanced interoperability between application functions

Abstract

This paper presents a platform to facilitate the deployment of applications in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The platform allows to the programmers to use a Function-as-a-Service programming paradigm that are managed and configured in a Platform-as-a-Service web tool. The tool also allows to establish interoperability between the functions of the applications. The proposed platform obtained faster and easier deployments of the applications and the resource usages of the IoT devices also were lower in relation to a deployment process based in containers of Docker.